War Savings Stamps and World War I Memorial

“The Torch of Liberty”

This shaft was donated by the Ohio War Savings Committee to the County of Morrow as an award to her citizens who, in aid of the government, purchased more War Savings Stamps per capita than any other ...

County Named, 1843

For Judge William Owsley, who was prominent in the Old Court – New Court Controversy, 1823. Born in Virginia, 1782. Came with parents to Lincoln County, 1783. Studied law with Judge John Boyle. State Legilature, two terms. Appointed Court of ...

D.A.R. Revolutionary Soldiers Memorial

To the memory

of the

Revolutionary Soldiers

buried in Morrow Co.

Marker is on High Street (Ohio Route 95), on the left when traveling east.

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Austin Flood Disaster

On Sept. 30, 1911, the Bayless Pulp and Paper Co. dam broke here. This concrete dam, built 1909, was nearly 50 feet high; 534 feet long. Its failure sent torrents of water and debris down Freeman Run into Austin and ...

Shifting Sands: The Story of Rosalie Island

You’re now standing in the cove protected by Rosalie Island, the point of first landfall for the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in Maryland. Rosalie Island is actually not an island at all–it is a peninsula. Indeed it is not even a ...

Ann Marwood Durant

d. 1695

First woman known to have acted as attorney in an N.C. court, 1673. Appeared before Council in Perquimans Precinct.

Marker is at the intersection of Ocean Highway (U.S. 17) and New Hope Road, on the right when traveling north on ...

The Island

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Barracks     Hospital

Brick – kiln

1755

Marker is on Old Fort Street, on the left when traveling west.

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County Named, 1806

For Gen. Green Clay, 1757-1826. Born in Va. Came to Ky., 1777. Va. Legislature, 1788-89, and Va. Convention that ratified Federal Constitution. From 1793 t0 1808 in Ky. House, Senate, Const. Conv. May, 1813,Gen Clay with 3000 Kentuckians, at Ft. ...

George Durant

1632-1694

Pioneer settler in the Albemarle, about 1662. Speaker of the Assembly. Site of home 20 miles east, at Durant's Neck.

Marker is at the intersection of Ocean Highway (U.S. 17) and New Hope Road, on the right when traveling north on ...

Building a Nation

Between 1862 and 1885, the United States undertook construction of a railroad to connect the East with the West. The Central Pacific Railroad was built 742 miles eastward from Sacramento. The Union Pacific was built 1,038 miles westward from Omaha. ...